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Thanks for weighing in. Disappointing that Blekko didn't work out better ... but hey, at least you have the t-shirt! Do you think that Duck Duck Go's (relati

• ChuckMcM 10y ago
  I liked DuckDuckGo's approach, they have really benefited from a user first strategy. That said, it has been interesting how the cost of compute and storage going down has led to such a large number of non-pages on the web. I was reading a paper which estimated that there were probably 10 trillion web documents reachable on the web, and fewer than 10 billion of them were "meaningful" (meaning they had accurate and unique information). If their estimates are correct, literally 99.9% of the web is crap pages. That is a huge discrimination problem.
  • vonklaus 10y ago
    do you have a link? this fits with my hypothesis, and would be interested to read it.